Justice Quotes

"Patience with the oppressor is betrayal of the oppressed."

"I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom."

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

"May we all stand together against injustice."

"The poorest of the poor cannot be forgotten in order that the richest may become richer."

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long duration and crueler than any physical warfare."

"Justice is not something that happens only in court; it must be lived every day."

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

"Every human being has an inherent right to dignity and respect, regardless of circumstance."

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"A state constituted of such men and women would be founded on justice, not cruelty."

"A man should be jailed any moment he is convicted by a jury of his countrymen of having stolen a penny."

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are"

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Strangely, the problem of poverty is not a problem of individual character and conduct, so much as it is a problem of economic and social organization."

"The time is always ripe to do right; we must not postpone justice."

"Let us be dissatisfied until every man can have access to the fullness of life."

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue."

"We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity shall be as nearly complete as possible."

"Men are not going to accept indefinitely the present condition that the fruits of their labor shall accrue to the benefit of a comparatively few industrialists."

"Social gains are never permanently obtained."

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."